Jo lives in a small town in southern Japan. She lives with her two children and Japanese husband and is learning more everyday about the world of Japanese agriculture and culture.

Sunday, July 01, 2007

More new friends

After our Korean visitors it was really nice to have a family come to stay who we were able to talk well with! We had a lovely family of 5 come to stay over the weekend and perfect weather meant swimming, vegetable hunting as well as outdoor eating was possible. The only problem was that the bugs also thought it was a great day to be out and about so we gave up on dessert outdoors and moved to the bug-free zone of inside!It has been really nice watching how my children have started to get used to having guests and rather than hiding in the corner until they've gone home, they now make the first move to play and talk with the new guests. I hope that they will be able to make many new friends this way - especially considering how few children live in this area!

After no rain for a long time the skies really dumped it on us today - temporarily stopping the trains and turning the lawn and garden into a pond. Hopefully that will be the end of it for a little while.....